Newly minted U.S. Sen. Scott P. Brown may be one of the most powerful men in America today, but 15 years ago he was just a young attorney who was being harassed by an angry litigant. In 1994, then-reporter Claire ...

K&L Gates, which charged a client $800,000 to defend a probate estate of $1.2 million, has been accused of “unnecessary overlawyering” by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. In a ruling in In the Matter of the Estate of Bartley J. King, released today, Justice Margot Botsford wrote for a unanimous court that “a total of eighteen attorneys and paralegals were representing [the client], a remarkable number especially when one takes into account the motion judge’s view that the theories advanced by the contestants were not ‘overly complex.’”

An order issued by the Supreme Judicial Court in an employment discrimination case appears to settle the question of when post-judgment interest starts. By determining that accrual begins when the first judgment is entered after "all claims are adjudicated," the ...